So I have this beautiful piece of Damascus steel laying here and I think i’m going to give it a run on the X-carve. Any thoughts? I’ve been looking at @ShaneBell videos with his work with steel, so it seems doable.

That’s a beautiful piece of damascus! Obviously, you’ll be following @ShaneBell’s example with plenty of coolant, proper bit and feed rates/DOC. I don’t remember if you’ve done the stiffening upgrade, but I’m sure that will definitely help with any side loads.

I’m very interested because I bought this, as is, and would love to have more creative options. I’m working on a way to digitize the blade profile in order to make the scales to fit.